Netherworld Retrograde

The voice of the 'Monarch Token' carried a peculiar hesitancy and hoarseness, devoid of any emotional fluctuation, so plain as if it were stating an established fact. Yet, every syllable seemed to bear the weight of vastness and the traces of ancient times.

The voice didn't seem to come from the throat, but more like a footnote suddenly emerging from the deep dust of history, carrying an inevitable, destined quality.

"Such a pretentious mystic, there's no world without these riddlers!" Li Yelai clicked his tongue in his heart, growing impatient with this obscuring demeanor.

"Friend or foe?" He asked directly with a frown.

Despite holding the already formed 'Ye Yun', which should make him invincible in this world, facing this sudden 'Monarch Token', Li Yelai for the first time felt uncertain about his assured victory.

This 'Monarch Token' gave him a very peculiar feeling. The opponent obviously possessed unfathomable strength, yet acted with extraordinary restraint. Whether it was destroying miracles with a wave of the hand or appearing out of nowhere, there wasn't the slightest unnecessary leakage of power, its precision was astonishing.

And when Li Yelai's spiritual sense tried to perceive the opponent, what returned was an unprecedented sense of crisis, unable to accurately determine the level of the opponent! This bottomless feeling made him feel as if facing a formidable enemy.

Xia Ming, beside him, furrowed his brows repeatedly chewing on the words "end of the world."

Does this mean that this world will eventually be destroyed? By the ever-spreading Crimson Curse?

But 'Monarch Token' obviously had no intention of explaining. In the next moment, his body suddenly decomposed into countless dark red geometric shapes, like a shattered mirror, disappearing instantly without leaving any energy ripples or spatial fluctuations.

"Teleportation?" Li Yelai's sharp gaze swept around, attempting to catch any traces.

Perhaps his 'You Must Meet Strong Enemies' could interfere with such an ability.

However, all around was deathly silent, with no anomalies occurring, only those Wanderers below, losing their target, roaring skyward in confusion, or instinctively trying to approach the direction with lingering auras of the living.

"Is it fixed-point teleportation? Or perhaps... he isn't an enemy, so 'You Must Meet Strong Enemies' didn't activate?" Li Yelai's mind raced, temporarily repressing his doubts.

Looking at the increasingly gathering Wanderers below, like a black tide, he hesitated no longer, and fiercely threw the already extremely unstable 'Ye Yun' towards the core area of the Night Demon City!

Then, retreating quickly with Xia Ming and the Little Mad King.

Although the appearance of the 'Monarch Token' was a huge unexpected variable, the initial strategic objective had already been achieved. The core of the Night Demon Civilization had been completely destroyed, and even if there were scattered survivors, they could no longer bear the burden of a civilization.

As Ye Yun fell, its destructive energy finally erupted completely!

The shattered Night Demon City, along with its countless Wanderers, was first swallowed and compressed by a terrifying gravity, then, when that Black Star reached its critical point, it exploded violently!

The flood of destruction, centered on the point of explosion, swept and engulfed everything like the blossoming of a flower of death!

Meanwhile, the Black Shadows resulting from the instant death of countless Wanderers surged, as if called upon by an unseen force, transforming into a torrent that chased after Li Yelai's departure.

They would become new recruits for the Shadow Army, further boosting Li Yelai's strength and foundation.

...

Elsewhere high above, Xia Ming quickly analyzed and said: "The spread speed of the Crimson Curse has far surpassed expectations, the current defenses of Wanfeng City are no longer sufficient to cope. We must immediately set out to establish new defenses further back, centered on Radiant Fire Stones, to form the 'Radiant Fire Great Wall' defense line."

"The Great Wall... is it still in time?" Li Yelai looked down at the scarlet region below, writhing like a living thing, corroding the earth. A truly vicious curse, distorting everything it touches in an instant. Similar to the abilities of 'Shang'.

"If we act immediately and appropriately reduce the coverage of the defense line, focusing resources on constructing key defensive nodes, we should still make it." Xia Ming spoke at a rapid pace: "The 'Great Wall' I'm talking about doesn't necessarily have to be an unbroken giant wall; under limited resources, we can construct earth mounds first. But the real trouble lies with the Wanderers..."

He pushed up his glasses, the lenses reflecting the endless black and red interwoven tide below, that of the Wanderers and the Crimson Curse.

"The energy field of Radiant Fire Stones can greatly slow the spread speed of the Crimson Curse itself, but it cannot stop the Wanderers. To these irrational monsters, the Radiant Fire Great Wall is just an obstructive pile of rocks."

"Under the continuous interference of the Wanderers, even if we barely build the defenses, they will be gradually destroyed by them. Many Alien Race Dynasties' strong city-states in history were eventually worn down like this."

"So... we must first eliminate, or at least significantly clear the Wanderers, to ensure the establishment and continuity of the defenses?" Li Yelai couldn't help feeling heavier at these words, his gaze sweeping towards the seemingly endless black tide below.

He had already released the huge-consuming Ye Yun twice, each time annihilating tens of thousands of Wanderers, impressive achievements indeed.

But faced with a terrifying total that brought despair, such casualties seemed just a drop in the ocean.

The technological level of this world, has it developed something similar to a 'nuclear bomb', a large-scale clearing weapon? Otherwise, the sheer numerical disparity alone is enough to collapse the entire human civilization....

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